Taste life.
I get it. The wine is (sometimes) free and usually generous in its offering. The winery staff enlivens the taste with glad stories of the winery or the wines or the places their grapes grow. After witnessing a few of the following behaviors first hand, or first nose, here’s a few gentle Continue reading "Seven Things To Never Say in a Winery"
It was the best of times. It was the most demanding of times. A recent foray through the region of Champagne demonstrated the prosperity and the divisions defining modern Champagne. Liébart-Regnier makes what we Americans know as ‘grower Champagne’. The family has owned property and vineyard land for 8 generations, beginning to make their own Continue reading "A Tale of Two Champagnes: Roederer…
Sparking at the intersection of tradition and innovation...
Spokane has a new winery project, dedicated to the idea that wine s character begins in a place and that some places imprint grapes with distinctive flavors producing distinctive wine. From the patchwork that comprise Washington State s vineyards, this is evident to every experienced wine lover. Kristina Mielke Van Loben-Sels and her husband Jim have Continue reading "Winery Feature Weather…
...the art of connoisseurship is the art of ignoring the label...
All the Cream of Tartar in the world comes from grape fermentation.
Relax.
We taste from where we have lived. Each of us knows food differently because we come from different places, inhabit different spaces and have traveled off towards different horizons. The contextual differences of everything from food choice to preparation methods to nationality influence diet context defines diet. Diet encourages discriminating after all, we Continue reading "The Community and…
It's harder and easier than you think.
Age displays its own savory chemistry. Participating in a wine auction weekend is an illuminating exercise in the physical and sensory changes between newly minted wine and wine that has had a chance to mature. What it offers a taster is the perspective of how old is old enough. A few Sunday nights ago, Corliss Continue reading "The Delicious Reward of Patience"